Section 188 Earlier IPC 245
Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in India, any coining tool or instrument, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 182Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 489E
- 183Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to GovernmentIPC 261
- 184Using Government stamp known to have been before usedIPC 262
- 185Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been usedIPC 263
- 186Prohibition of fictitious stampsIPC 263A
- 187Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by lawIPC 244